In the spring of 2022, SRCHC’s Indigenous Health Promoter and the COUNTERfit Women’s Health Promoter brought together a group of Indigenous women who use drugs for an 8-week program to create their own regalia (the traditional clothing and accessories worn by Indigenous people at dances and cultural events) and dance in a Circle on the lawn next to the health …
Cross organizational partnership to support care coordination
As Co-Chair of the Ontario Health Team for East Toronto’s, Community Advisory Council, I would like to sincerely thank the Primary and Community Care Response Teams for their invaluable services. The PCCRT has established a caring environment where our community’s most vulnerable individuals receive coordinated care and support from over 20 organizations within their own medical neighbourhood. We are profoundly …
Community Health Is Built on Collective Kindness: Examples from the Community Health and Chronic Disease Portfolio
Compassion is a complex process that is innate, determined in part by individual traits, and modulated by a myriad of conscious and unconscious factors, immediate context, social structures and expectations, and organizational “culture.” Compassion is an ethical foundation of healthcare and a widely shared value; it is not an optional luxury in the healing process. While the interrelations between individual …
Providing relief from symptoms and stress of illness
Mapping clinical care to disease progression, while making advance directives, care proxies, and involving authorized loved ones is a rare privilege that many do not get to witness. Our Integrated Primary Care team honours this privilege by promoting compassionate, collaborative and respectful primary palliative care as a way of delivering whole-person care. Palliative care is a specialized service for people …
Board Chair & CEO Message
Dear Members of the South Riverdale Community Health Centre, As we reflect on the past year, we are reminded of the incredible challenges we have all faced in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the toxic drug crisis, the social and health impacts of systemic racism, climate change and ever-increasing inequality in our city. Despite these challenges, our community has …
Mobile Vaccination Efforts to Promote Vaccine Access
Last year, SRCHC’s COVID-19 response work expanded to include mobile vaccination. Staff from SRCHC’s Toronto Community Hep C and harm reduction staff who had previously been supporting COVID-19 testing and outbreak management in shelters and group homes could now play a leadership role in in bringing low-barrier mobile vaccine clinics to some of the highest-risk settings across Toronto’s east end. …
Quality Improvement : Health Equity and Preventative Care
A Quality Improvement Plan (QIP) outlines change concepts and sets targets to improve health outcomes for clients and community. COVID-19 has worsened existing health inequities for racialized and vulnerable populations. Intentional and integrated planning is critical because the pandemic has significantly affected how people find and access care. Across the healthcare system, delays in care have resulted in missed routine …
Shifting Programs and Services to meet Mental Health Needs
The COVID-19 pandemic had profound, worldwide impacts on people’s physical and mental health. In late 2021, Statistics Canada released findings from its Survey on COVID-19 and Mental Health. It found that one in four Canadians over the age of 18 screened positive for depression (19%), anxiety (15%), or post-traumatic stress disorder. As well, 83% of Canadians experienced a negative impact …
In Solidarity with Indigenous Peoples and Dedicated to Truth and Reconciliation
SRCHC in Solidarity with Indigenous Peoples and Dedicated to Truth and Reconciliation was this year’s theme of Truth and Reconciliation Day, an event held to acknowledge the brutal history of residential schools in Canada and their impacts on survivors and family members. The legacy of colonization and its effects on current systems and policies are inextricably linked to the current …
Responding to and Preventing Overdoses Takes a Multi-Pronged Approach
Overdoses and overdose-related deaths have been steadily increasing over the last decade. This was especially true during the last two years, during the COVID-19 pandemic. As a result, community organizers and substance users set up grassroots community-driven Consumption Sites in parks and began saving lives. Harm Reduction staff and community members banded together to teach each other how to better …
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